Best Of TV Awards Announcements and results

The 2015 Best Of TV Awards are well under way. the 6th annual BOTVA's are still closing out some polls for the opening round, and already have shattered the previous record for votes in the first round combined. With over 487,000 votes already cast at the time of writing this post, the 2015 BOTVA's is well on its way to breaking the current record of just under 575,000 votes in a year.

The Nomination rounds for Best Comedy Actor, Best Comedy Actress and Best Comedy Program took place a couple weeks ago.

The Besy Comedy Actor category the only two active winners in the category in the top 5 of the opening round, along with a familiar face who is back with a new show, Chris Colfer, the 2013 winner was the leader in the opening round with 293 votes. Timothy Omundson, a frequent finalist in the past for Psych, is back with Galavant and finished 2nd with "160". Kevin McHale finished 3rd for "Glee' with 103. Jim Parsons, the defending winner, and 2 time champ was 4th with 82. Terry Crews "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" makes his first semi-finals with a 5th place total of 68.

Here are the complete results (BOLD nominees have qualified for the Semi-Finals)

The Best Comedy Actress Category appears on the surface to possibly lend some competition to a category that The Big Bang Theory has dominated in the most unusual way. Kaley Cuoco and Mayim Bialik ave won the award two times each, and neither of them have won it back to back. A notable amount of "long shots" managed to sneak into the 2nd round this year, including most of the top 5 list which came from programs that dont seem like likely to make an impact when it comes to 1 vote per person voting. This year, long time finalist Jane Lynch "Glee" led the opening round with 112. Taylor Schilling from "Orange Is The new Black" was 2nd close behind at 107. Constance Wu from "Fresh Off The Boat" had 78 for 3rd. Betty White for "Hot In Cleveland was 4th with 72. Lily Tomlin for "Grace And Frtankie" finished 5tg with 68.

Here are the full results. (BOLD nominees have qualified for the Semi-Finals)

The Best Comedy Program Category has been a clean sweep for The Big Bang Theory since it was brought in 5 years ago.This year, it again looks like they will be a serious contender. Orange Is The New Black took the opening round lead with 135 votes. The Big Bang Theory was 2nd with 105. Brooklyn Nine-Nine was back in 3rd with 75. Then 2 Broke Girls in 4th with 71 and Modern family rounded out the top 5 with 56.

Here are the full results. (BOLD nominees have qualified for the Semi-Finals)

Grace And Frankie 14Mile And Molly 12Louie 11Silicon Valley 7The second round of the 2015 Best Of TV Awards has begun with some categories. Each voting round will last 2 to 5 days. As always, that round will be 1 vote per person, so many of the results seen in the opening round might mean nothing in a couple weeks. Full results, including valid write in candidates with more than 1 vote are listed below in the images.

Voting, and a complete list of nominees in all categories can be found HERE